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Short for "substitution failure is not an error".

This rule applies during overload resolution of function templates: When substituting the deduced type for the template parameter fails, the specialization is discarded from the overload set instead of causing a compile error.

The standard library component std::enable_if allows for creating a substitution failure in order to enable or disable particular overloads based on a condition evaluated at compile time.